Genius

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[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalism is an outside context problem.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Movies that are just about punching the bad guy are boring. Like Man Of Steel. Snyder failed to connect the character themes and drama to the action in a meaningful way.

Seeing Marc, Steven, and Jake grapple with how to oppose Amit's ideology, and disagree, is great. Steven and Marc are broken, foolish men. But they have ideals and values. They think the only way to defeat Amit ideologically is to make a stand against killing bad people. I mean, she's a god. She gets stronger when people follow her ideology. Steven and Marc think the answer is to find a way to disable the enemy without killing, and thereby prove Amit's ideology wrong and weaken her.

And Jake doesn't give a fuck, like the more traditional depictions of Moon Knight.

I want to see a season 2 where the three come to understand one another, and where these religious questions are grappled with on a deeper level. As you say, killing bad people isn't always wrong. Perhaps they could have a discussion about how the pantheon exists for a reason, and you can't just destroy one of your gods with no consequences. Killing bad people has its place, the problem is just that Amit wanted to be too powerful.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Well that's just how evil capitalism is

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not many Marvel superheroes with schizophrenia and DID. I value the show because of the representation. I've never seen such a good depiction of plurality on TV. And I'm also a fan of Moon Knight in the comics. My favourite run is From The Dead. I love the sass with which he informs the somnologist that a Paladin of Khonsu is well qualified to treat dream problems.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, but Steven and Marc haven't reached that point in their character development yet. They don't fully understand who they are and what Moon Knight is. They don't know about Jake. Jake does kill people in cold blood. The implication is that in season 2, Steven and Marc will have to come to terms with that, just as they both came to terms with each other. This is an origin story.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Aang is carrying an entire culture on his back. If he loses his way as an Air Nomad, then the genocide of his people is complete, and the world will never again be restored to balance.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, but she's forgetting about Aang's cultural duty to his people. He's the last Air Nomad. If Aang intentionally takes a life, then that cultural aspect of the Air Nomads is dead forever in his eyes.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

But I have had to worry about cars cooking the atmosphere with their pollution and ending the entire human species. And I think that's worse than leptospirosis.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

That's one more anecdote from a communist country than you've given.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I said YOUR country wasn't communist in the last 2000 years. Many were. Like Catalonia. Like I told you.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trans women were allowed to compete in the Olympics in 2004. That's 21 years ago. Six olympics.

The Paris Olympics had 11,040 athletes. The Athens Olympics had 10,600. Let's average those for 10,800 and say 64,8000 athletes competed in the Summer Olympics since trans women were allowed.

Only one transgender athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. Their name is Quinn, they're a soccer player from Canada. And they were born female. They won two medals.

So the percentage of trans people in the general population is 1%, the percentage of Olympic athletes who are trans and won a medal is 0.0015%, and the percentage of Olympic athletes who were born male and won a medal in the women's league is 0.0000%.


What you should be understanding from these figures is that trans women will never dominate sporting events of any kind. We suck at sports because we're all big nerds. Any trans person who is good at sports is a freak.

 

I'm gay. I'm agender, and I like enbies better than men and women.

The other day in an argument I got frustrated with someone and told them to call me a homophobic slur. One part sarcasm, one part hoping they'd actually do it and get in trouble. Instead, I got punished for using the word. I wasn't expecting that, because I'm gay. If I call myself a f-----, I didn't think that was anyone else's problem.

Was I right? Is it okay for me to use that word, talking about myself?

 
 

Should I switch to using Arthur.Sulzberger@nytimes.com instead?

 

I tried explaining my problems with tankies without calling them tankies. In fact, I used their own terminology to describe my disagreement with them. It, uh... well it doesn't make a lot of sense.

George Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war on the side of the Marxists. His army was betrayed by the Marxist-Leninists. After that experience, he wrote 1984, in which a totalitarian government uses "newspeak" to suppress dissent by suppressing the very ideas that people are capable of communicating. I don't think it's a coincidence that Marxist-Leninists describe their disagreements in terms that turn criticism of them into gibberish. I think it's exactly what Orwell was writing about based on his experiences.

 
 
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